Casey Hale

Natural Resources Specialist | Chicago Botanic x BLM
🐝🌱 Native bee ecology | Agroecology

[BeesYU @BeesYork]

Eufriesea sp. (Apidae, 71 species).
Orchid bees are corbiculate bees, as can be seen in the expanded concave surface of the metatibia here. Males also have expanded metatibiae but they are convex and used for perfume storage, rather than pollen transport.
(IG: @thepackerlab)

[Nicky Bay @singaporemacro]

Rapisma is a rarely observed genus of large moth lacewings from the family Ithonidae and do not look like any typical lacewing at all!

[orangepelican @orange_pelican]

オオトガリハナバチのメス。なかなか怪しい雰囲気。
Coelioxys fenestrata

[Casey Hale @mesoplia]

Are horseshoe crabs even real?

[CndddoPers Community HQ @CnddopersComm]

After 17 years, this bug nerd has now seen TWO generations of brood X! #BroodX #CicadaWatch2021

[Kate LeCroy, PhD (she/her) @BeesYall]

I hired a Dolly Parton impersonator to kick off my virtual PhD defense, 10/10 would recommend 💖 (my advisor laughed til he cried) #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdlife #DollyParton

[Casey Hale @mesoplia]

Is it socially acceptable to body shame your cat?

[Dan Baldassarre @evornithology]

Do you always have R open in the background or do you live a normal life?

[PovedaLab @PovedaLab]

The field season officially started!!! Hundreds of Barbarea vulgaris plants went into the ground yesterday!

[Casey Hale @mesoplia]

How have I been sleeping on audiobooks for a whole 23 years THEY'RE GREAT

[Jasmin Graham (she/her) @Elasmo_Gal]

If 👏you👏 can't👏tell👏a👏taser👏and👏a👏gun👏apart👏you shouldn't 👏be👏 a 👏cop. See also if you can't make a simple traffic stop without escalating gtfo of the police force. I will not be taking questions at this time.

[sandy frizzle 🇵🇸 @SandyFrizzle]

I'd say destroying communities happens when one of your community members is gunned down, not when the local Target has broken windows.

[hot grandma @ehur12]

we’ve had 4 cornellians die in the last 5 months and what has cornell done to help its students grieve and/or offer any kind of reprieve from this toxic academic culture? absolutely nothing.

[PovedaLab @PovedaLab]

The Poveda Lab has a new logo! Our grad student and resident lab artist @hayleyadair37 perfectly captured our research interests including pollination, herbivory, and landscape ecology! 🐝🐛🏞️

[gal galoch @antifatwa]

What a brilliant way to explain why two shots are required for covid-19 vaccination.

[Casey Hale @mesoplia]

@vectorecology As a daily proponent of big dangly earrings I am OFFENDED

[Casey Hale @mesoplia]

“I’ll have a final draft by next week for sure”